elmer2 11 hours ago

"The logic is that free, user-built companions inside mass-market general-purpose apps are impossible to moderate at scale."

I think they misspelled censor.

  • watwut 2 hours ago

    Not really. They are censored easily and successfully.

    However, moderation is hard and the companies are motivated to moderate them toward maximum outrage with some plausible deniality on top of it.

Havoc 1 hour ago

I liked this article. Does a good job of framing some of the concerns around this in clear language.

e.g.

> Attachment Economy, which is an extractive business model that uses AI to lure people into forming emotional attachments to chatbots

g42gregory 9 hours ago

It begs the conclusion that these 3 are similar Governments in the way they govern.

mikelgan 18 hours ago

The governments of China, California and New York agree on three harmful aspects of companion AI chatbots.

chews 10 hours ago

With respect to GDP the #2, #4, and #8 all agree that artificial companionship is probably bad for humans should tell you something.